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[openbeosnetteam] Re: PPP, libnet, and why inside the kernel?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 14:38:21 CEST (+0200)
> More seriously, don't *force* the network to live in kernel code:
> - if the network live fully in kernel, for each network-related 
> change 
> we'll need to release a new kernel. Please, no!

When the kernel couldn't load the networking stack module, the call to 
socket() could just return an error, it doesn't have to be included in 
the kernel for this.
Anyway, I would rather see *all* networking related functions in 
libnet.so.

Adios...
   Axel.







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